Automatic electronic date/mate finder and method of electronically finding a date/mate

• US 6,020,810 A
• Filed: 10/22/1998
• Issued: 02/01/2000
• Est. Priority Date: 10/22/1998
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Eva A. Har-Even
• Original Assignee: Michael Cole
• Inventors: Har-Even, Eva A.
• Primary Examiner(s): POPE, DARYL C
• Application Number:
  US09/176,828
• Time in Patent Office: 467 Days
• Field of Search: 340/328, 340/326, 340/825.29, 340/825.3, 340/825.35, 379/90.01, 379/93.17, 379/93.25, 707/2, 707/3, 707/104, 455/575, 709/253
• US Class Current: 340/328
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 1/08 using electric transmission ; transformation of alarm signals to electrical signals from a different medium, e.g. transmission of an electric alarm signal upon detection of an audible alarm signal
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 2001/085 Partner search devices
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99945 Object-oriented database structure processing
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99948 Application of database or data structure, e.g. distributed, multimedia, or image

Abstract

An automatic electronic date/mate finder includes a portable case; a screen on the portable case for viewing personal questions about a first person and/or a person that the first person would like to meet; a keypad on the portable case for inputting data corresponding to answers to the personal questions; a random access memory for storing the data input by the keypad; a transceiver in the portable case for transmitting the input data, and for receiving data corresponding to answers to the personal questions about a second person and/or a person that the second person would like to meet, that are transmitted by another automatic electronic date/mate finder; an audible alarm in the portable case; and a central processing unit in the portable case and connected to the alarm, the transceiver, the keypad and the screen, for coding the input data prior to transmission thereof, comparing the transmitted data with the received data, determining a percentage match of the transmitted data with the received data, and activating the alarm when the percentage match is greater than a predetermined percentage match.

Claims

1. An automatic electronic date/mate finder comprising:

a portable case;

a screen on the portable case for viewing personal questions about a first person and/or a person that the first person would like to meet;

a keypad on the portable case for inputting data corresponding to answers to the personal questions, said keypad including;

at least one button for moving through various said personal questions and/or possible answers to the personal questions, and

at least one button for selecting one of a plurality of answers to each question;

an antenna attached to the portable case for transmitting and receiving radio frequency signals;

a transceiver in the portable case for;

transmitting said input data by said radio frequency signal, and

receiving data from an antenna corresponding to answers to said personal questions about a second person and/or a person that the second person would like to meet, that are transmitted by another said automatic electronic date/mate finder;

an alarm in the portable case for providing at least one of a visual and audio indication; and

a central processing unit in the portable case and connected to said alarm, said transceiver, said keypad and said screen, for;

comparing the transmitted data with the received data,

determining a percentage match of said transmitted data with said received data, and

activating said alarm when the percentage match is any percentage match within a range of a less than 100 percent predetermined percentage match and a 100 percent match.

2. An automatic electronic date/mate finder according to claim 1, wherein said alarm includes an audible alarm.

3. An automatic electronic date/mate finder according to claim 1, wherein:

said at least one button for selecting one of a plurality of answers to each question includes an affirmative/negative button for providing an affirmative/negative response;

said at least one button for moving through various said personal questions and/or possible answers to the personal questions includes an arrow button for moving through various said personal questions and/or possible answers to the personal questions; and

said keypad further includes a transmit button for controlling the transceiver to transmit said data corresponding to said answers to said personal questions about the first person and/or a person that the first person would like to meet.

4. An automatic electronic date/mate finder according to claim 1, further comprising a memory for storing said data input by said keypad for comparison with said received data.

5. An automatic electronic date/mate finder according to claim 1, wherein said memory is a random access memory.

6. An automatic electronic date/mate finder according to claim 1, further comprising a read only memory for storing a program used by said microprocessor for performing said functions of comparing, determining and activating.

7. An automatic electronic date/mate finder according to claim 1, wherein said central processing unit codes said input data prior to transmission thereof.

8. A method of electronically finding a date/mate, comprising the steps of:

viewing personal questions about a first person and/or a person that the first person would like to meet, on a screen of a first portable automatic date/mate finder;

inputting data corresponding to answers to said personal questions into the first portable automatic date/mate finder, including the steps of;

moving through various said personal questions and/or possible answers to the personal questions by at least one button on a keypad, and

selecting one of a plurality of answers to each question by at least one button on a keypad;

transmitting said input data by a radio frequency signal;

receiving data from an antenna, said signal corresponding to answers to said personal questions about a second person and/or a person that the second person would like to meet, that are transmitted by a second portable automatic electronic date/mate finder;

comparing the input data with the received data in said first automatic electronic date/mate finder;

determining a percentage match of said input data with said received data; and

activating an alarm which provides at least one of a visual and audio indication when the percentage match is any percentage match within a range of a less than 100 percent predetermined percentage match and a 100 percentage match.

9. A method according to claim 8, wherein said alarm includes an audible alarm.

10. A method according to claim 8, wherein:

said step of selecting includes the step of providing an affirmative/negative response via an affirmative/negative button on a keypad;

said step of moving through various said personal questions and/or possible answers to the personal questions includes the step of actuating an arrow button on the keypad; and

said step of transmitting includes the step of controlling a transceiver via a transmit button on the keypad to transmit said data corresponding to said answers to said personal questions about the first person and/or a person that the first person would like to meet.

11. A method according to claim 8, further including the step of storing said input data in a memory in said first portable automatic date/mate finder.

12. A method according to claim 8, further comprising the step of coding said input data prior to transmission thereof.